With Meghan Markle, Bella Hadid, Cate Blanchett and Amal Clooney as fans, millennial designer Misha Nonoo must be doing plenty right
- She was a finalist for the prestigious CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund and in 2015 was named one of Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg helped her become the first designer to do an Instagram runway
Way back in 2011, Misha Nonoo was having brunch with some friends in Manhattan. She was around 25 at the time, sporting a jacket that she herself had designed.
By chance, a buyer for the brand Intermix was sitting one table over. “She said, ‘I love the jacket you’re wearing, where is it from?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I made it’,” Nonoo recalled.
The next thing she knew, Nonoo found herself in the buyer’s office, showing off eight original designs. “I walked out with a purchase order for six of the eight pieces,” Nonoo said. It was worth $150,000.
A few months later, Nonoo officially launched her eponymous clothing line, and within two years, she became a finalist for the prestigious CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. In 2015, she was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30”. That same year, she became the first designer to host a fashion show on Instagram. The next year, Snapchat.
Today, the brand counts celebrities such as Bella Hadid, Cate Blanchett, Meghan Markle and Amal Clooney as fans. In 2019 she teamed up with Markle, then still a working royal, on a clothing line for the women’s charity Smart Works. The sleek designs and sustainable ethos of Nonoo’s brand are two of the reasons it’s won such highly placed fans.